Cup-handle.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

A. N. COOPER.

' CUP HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 2a, 1907.

' view of the handle.

I To all whom it may concern.-

ALBERT N. COOPER, or DARBY, MONTANA.

CUP-HANDLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed February 28, 1907. Serial No. 369,782.

Be it known that I, ALBERT N. COOPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Darby, in the county of Ravalli and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Cup-Handle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to handles which may be attached to and detached from vessels of various kinds without handles, such as certain kinds ofmetal on s or measures, cups which have lost their handles, and empty vegetable or fruit cans, which, after cleansing, may readily be converted into vessels by the use of this device.

The object of the invention, therefore, is to produce simple, cheap and easily attached handles for vessels, which may be a plied'by any person without mechanical s ill, and which will retain connection to the vessel through all vicissitudes of use and abuse which a vessel of this character is liable to encounter. This handle, though firmly retaining its connection to a cup or other vessel, can be as readily detached therefrom, and with as little mechanical knowledge as was reiquired to secure it to the vessel in the first p ace. I

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a vessel with the improved handle attached. Fig. 2 is an edge Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the handle is formed. Fig. 4 is a view of a handle blank with parallel edges instead of tapering edges shown in the preferred form.

Similar numerals of reference indicate the same parts in all of the several figures.

In the manufacture of handles after this invention, a strip of metal, preferably sheet steel, of suitable length and required thickness and preferably narrower at one end than at the other, has its ends fashioned into tongues, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. If preferred, this strip may have parallel sides instead of the tapered ones represented in the drawing. The. wider end of the blank is slotted or cut back from the end a sufficient distance, as at 23 to form three rojections or tongues 4, 5 and 6, the centrall tongue 4 being wider than the side tongues' 5 and 6. The other or narrower end has but one slot or indentation 7, forming thereby two tongues 81 and 9, each preferably narrower than the s ot.

The blank thus formed is bent into the curved shape represented in Fig. 2, or any other form desired. The tongues 8 and 9 on the narrow end of the .blank which forms the lower end of the handle, are bent as shown, to form a hook 10, which extends under the flange or head on the bottom of the vessel. The middle tongue 4 at the opposite or upper end of the blank is first bent mto a 100 1 1 to engage the bead on the upper end of t e vessel, and then downward y to press agalnst the inner wall of the same. The other tongues 5 and 6 rest firmly against the outer side. The handle thus constructed is ready for use. It is to be understood, however, that the shape given it is such that the upper and lower ends approach each other when detached from the vessel more than. when laced thereon, the object of this being to liold the handle on the vessel by a spring pressure.

Handles of this character may be readily punched, stamped or cut from sheet metal without appreciable waste. In fact, the only waste need be the metal taken from the slots 2, 3 and 7.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 3 A detachable handle made from a strip of sheet metal indented at one end by two notches to form a central finger and a narrower one on each side, a single central notch made in the other end to roduce a longitudinal finger on each side of said notch which latter fingers are bent to form two parallel hooks, the body of said strip being curved into the sha e of a handle with the end there- 'of having t e three fingers at the top, the

a horizontal loop and then extended down- 1 ward out of line with but parallel to the narrow fingers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT N. COOPER.

Witnesses:

A. B. ERWAY, W. S. GAR-RISON. 

